Does Anyone Know The Deal With Importing

[aussieparrotchic]

Hi Everyone Just wondering if anyone out there knows what the deal is with impoting soay from America to Australia I have been looking at a couple of birds in America and am wondering if it is illegal to import them or if there is a way thanks in anticipation Michelle :icon_mrgr

[Peregrine Harlequin]

I had typed out a wonderfully elegant reply, but my ISP decided to screw up on me. But yes, it's quite doable. You just have to contact the right people and fill out the right forms.

The main regulating body is CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). So these two pages may serve as a good launching point for your quest:

http://cites.org/eng/resources/faq.shtml
http://cites.org/eng/resources/transport/index.shtml

Also, I have an aunt who works for CITES, and helped punch out those parrot regulations in the '80s. So I could email her if you need more help, but I can't say how long it will take for her to respond (at the moment she's living down in Chile with her husband; she flies back and forth constantly).

Last year I did ask her what I'd have to do if I was moving from the U.S. to Canada with a parrot. She said "you'd just have to fill out a form." But I'm sure that moving with and importing a bird are legally two separate things. So check out those sites, and good luck.

[Majj]

I didn`t really think we in Oz were allowed to import birds I know if you have a PET you can bring it in with you but it must stay months in Quarentine which would be quite stressful for birds ...I will be interested to know if I am wrong and you can import birds ...Good Luck ..we have a pretty STRICT CUSTOMS RULES down under ..

[Stacey32]

I wish you guys above were right. But I don't believe you are. I have been a "stakeholder" in the process of trying to get my Bindy allowed to Australia when we move back later this year. It's a DEFINITE NO. -even if it were quarantined. And believe me, I have been checking very very frequently as it's tearing me up inside.

See the Australian quarantine and inspection site link below:
http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon32/asp/ex...=Pattern+Match

this is the link to register as a 'stakeholder' to hear updates quickly:
http://www.affa.gov.au/content/outpu...ntType=outputs

[Majj]

Geeeee it must be just on Birds as my neighbour brought her 2 cats from the U.K they spent 3 months in Quarentine...I would go crazy at the thought of having to leave my birds...I would not give up if I were you keep trying ...

[Tiki]

I don't know why they are so strict on birds, obviouly the people in charge don't believe that people can form a strong attachment to birds like they do with dogs and cats. I had made a couple phone calls trying to help Stacey find a way around this, AQIS is the stumbling block, they won't let foreign bird in.

[Stacey32]

Thanks tiki. i just saw you responded to this and i appreciate you trying to help. i'll keep you updated! maybe i'll storm their offices in march....and then probably be deported quite quickly! maybe we can attempt to meet again in march ? i would love to meet you and your birds :)

[The Outlaw]

Tiki:

I think it has more to do with the devastation that PBFD had on the cockatoos. Aussies are very careful about protecting their native species and I must take my hat off to them.

THE OUTLAW

[Stacey32]

yeah, probably that nancy. but the main reason they gave me is "avian flu"

[aussieparrotchic]

It cant be because of pbfd because that is rampant over here and we probably have more probs thatn anyone alse. It is rediculous as we let dogs into the country and rabies would be more of a threat than any bird disease surely if we can quarenteen against rabies we can against bird flu